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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-2088 Detail

Description

The Apache HTTP server before 1.3.34, and 2.0.x before 2.0.55, when acting as an HTTP proxy, allows remote attackers to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks via an HTTP request with both a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header and a Content-Length header, which causes Apache to incorrectly handle and forward the body of the request in a way that causes the receiving server to process it as a separate HTTP request, aka "HTTP Request Smuggling."


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Apache (07/02/2008)

Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.0.55: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://marc.info/?l=apache-httpd-announce&m=112931556417329&w=3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2005/Jun/0025.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/14530 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17319 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17487 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/17813 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19072 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19073 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19185 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/19317 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23074 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/604 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014323 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.600000 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102197-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102198-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=PK13959&apar=only CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&q=PK16139&apar=only CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_1.3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.0 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-803 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-805 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:130 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_sr.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_46_apache.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-582.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securiteam.com/securityreviews/5GP0220G0U.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Exploit 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428138/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14106 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15647 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-160-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2140 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2659 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0789 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1018 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Permissions Required 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4680 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Permissions Required 
http://www.watchfire.com/resources/HTTP-Request-Smuggling.pdf CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00612828 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r734a07156abf332d5ab27fb91d9d962cacfef4f3681e44056f064fa8%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd65d8ba68ba17e7deedafbf5bb4899f2ae4dad781d21b931c2941ac3%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re895fc1736d25c8cf57e102c871613b8aeec9ea26fd8a44e7942b5ab%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11452 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1237 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1526 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1629 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A840 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
https://secure-support.novell.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/741/3222109_f.SAL_Public.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-2088
NVD Published Date:
07/05/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.